"These essays represent a broad array of the papers delivered at the fourth annual conference of the Italian Cultural Studies Association ... held in Boca Raton ... November 7-9, 2002"--P.

Cultural Writing. The three essays in this volume originate from a symposium held at Florida Atlantic University, dedicated to the integration of the Advanced Placement exam within the teaching of Italian language and culture. Special emphasis was placed upon Italian-American culture, as shown in the essays included in INTRODUCING ITALIAN AMERICANA: "From the Old Country to the Old Neighborhood: Creating Italian American Literature," by Fred Gardaphe, State University of New York at Stony Brook; "From Italy to the New World: Italian Writers in the United States," by Paolo A Giordano,...

The essays in this collection constitute a partial representation of what was presented at the 39th annual conference of the American Italian Historical Association held in 2006.

Literary Nonfiction. Film Studies. Through keenly insightful readings of a variety of films, from full-length features to shorts, Anthony Julian Tamburri illuminates the vital and continuous relationship between Italy and the United States. In doing so, he brilliantly decodes the continuous thematic interplay between Italy and Italian America. The book seeks to expand film spectators' interpretative personalities. Among the films that Tamburri discusses are The House I Live In, The Godfather and Golden Door.

This book is divided into three sections. The first section deals with the general situation of Italian/American literature and its reception both in the United States and in Italy. It also discusses other social and cultural issues that pertain to Italian Americana. Section two consists of six chapters, each discussing a specific author; three dedicated to prose (Pietro di Donato, Mario Puzo, Luigi Barzini), three dedicated to poetry (Joseph Tusiani, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Rina Ferrarelli). Section three examines the current state of criticism dedicated to Italian/American literature, the...

"Why Study Italian" includes essays by Lidia Matticchio Bastianich, Claudio Bisogniero, Roberto Dolci, Clorinda Donato, Fred Gardaphe, Hermann W. Haller, Silvana Mangione, Vincenzo Marra, Berardo Paradiso, Eugenia Paulicelli, Natalia Quintavalle, Anthony Julian Tamburri, and Giulio Terzi di Sant Agata. The idea for this editorial project was born out of discussions that paralleled those that were taking place around the re-implementation of the Advanced Placement Program in Italian, which the College Board had suspended after the 2010 administration of the Advanced Placement Exam in Italian....

Literary Nonfiction. "The reflections that are here published represent the synthesis of ILICA's mission: 'More reality and less rhetoric.' Civilization and culture flourish in well-defined cycles, and Italians have a unique history, a symbol in this world which is always more global." Vincenzo Marra, President, ILICA

ILICA, Italian Language Inter-Cultural Alliance, is a not for profit foundation dedicated to the promotion of the Italian language as an instrument of understanding and study of a culture in continuous evolution, and in constant dialogue with both Americans of...

As in previous volumes, this collection of essays contributes to the fundamental mission of the Mediterranean Centre for Intercultural
Studies--founded in 2012 and located in Erice--with the specific goal of creating a dialogue between those scholars whose intellectual work is dedicated to topics and themes related to any aspect of Mediterranean culture, in the broadest sense of the
term. This volume also underscores our desire--and dare we say, necessity--to make readily available the best of work that emanates from the Centre's annual meetings.